Cardiology
Starting from
$900
Up to $6,000 depending on centre
Typical duration
4–7 days
Including pre-operative work-up
Partner hospitals
2
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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) opens narrowed or blocked coronary arteries using a balloon catheter and permanently scaffolds the vessel with a drug-eluting stent, relieving angina and preventing heart attacks without open-chest surgery. Leading cardiac hospitals in India and Turkey perform thousands of elective PCI procedures annually at 60–75% below US list prices, with same-day or next-day discharge for stable cases.
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Angioplasty and coronary stenting
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Average coordinated costs across our partner centres. Final pricing depends on clinical complexity and chosen hospital.
| Country | Avg. cost | vs. cheapest |
|---|---|---|
🇮🇳 India New Delhi · Chennai · Bengaluru · Hyderabad · Mumbai · Kochi | $2,000 | —chevron_right |
🇹🇷 Turkey Istanbul | $2,500 | +25%chevron_right |
Costs are indicative estimates and vary by procedure specifics, hospital, and clinical complexity. Request a personalised estimate for your specific case.
This treatment category covers several different operations with different levels of invasiveness, recovery times, and costs. The country averages above blend all of them together — use the breakdown below for a more realistic, procedure-specific estimate.
A stent coated with a slow-release drug (commonly sirolimus, everolimus, or zotarolimus) is expanded inside the narrowed segment of a coronary artery using a balloon catheter, permanently scaffolding the vessel open while the medication reduces the scar-tissue regrowth that causes re-narrowing. It is the default, most widely used stent type for most patients undergoing PCI today.
Typical recovery · 1 week
Most patients go home the same day or after one overnight stay; light activity resumes within days and most return to work within about a week. Dual antiplatelet therapy (aspirin plus a P2Y12 inhibitor) is typically continued for 6–12 months to protect the stent while it fully heals into the artery wall.
India
$3,500–$5,500
Turkey
$3,500–$7,000
Thailand
$10,000–$20,000
An uncoated metal mesh stent is expanded to hold a narrowed coronary artery open. It carries a higher long-term re-narrowing (restenosis) risk than a drug-eluting stent, so it is now used mainly for patients who cannot safely stay on prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy, or in specific anatomical situations.
Typical recovery · 1 week
The hospital course is essentially the same as drug-eluting stenting — a same-day or one-night stay with return to light activity within about a week — but dual antiplatelet therapy is typically only required for around a month rather than 6–12 months, which is the main reason it is occasionally still chosen.
India
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
A balloon-tipped catheter is inflated inside the narrowed segment of a coronary artery to compress the plaque and stretch the vessel open, without leaving a permanent stent behind. It is used less often as a stand-alone treatment today — mainly for very small vessels, some cases of in-stent restenosis, or as a preparatory step before stenting — since stents generally give more durable results.
Typical recovery · 3–7 days
Typically a same-day procedure or one overnight stay for observation, with most patients resuming light activity within a few days to a week. Because no stent is left behind, only a short course of antiplatelet medication is generally needed, though the artery has a higher chance of re-narrowing than after stenting.
India
$2,500–$4,500
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Before opening a narrowed artery, a pressure-sensing guidewire measures fractional flow reserve — the actual pressure drop across the blockage — to confirm it is significant enough to justify stenting, rather than relying on the angiogram's appearance alone. This helps avoid unnecessary stenting of borderline blockages that are not truly restricting blood flow.
Typical recovery · 1 week
The pressure-wire measurement adds only a few minutes to the catheterization itself, so hospital stay and recovery follow the same course as the angioplasty or stenting it is guiding — typically a same-day or overnight stay with return to light activity within about a week.
India
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
A tiny diamond-coated burr spinning at up to around 150,000 rpm is threaded into a severely calcified coronary artery to sand down and fragment the hardened plaque into microscopic particles, preparing an artery that is too rigid for balloon angioplasty alone so that a stent can then be placed successfully.
Typical recovery · 1–2 weeks
Typically involves an overnight hospital stay for monitoring, slightly longer than routine stenting because of the more complex, higher-risk nature of treating heavily calcified vessels. Most patients resume light activity within 1–2 weeks, followed by the same dual antiplatelet therapy course as standard stenting.
India
$6,000–$10,000
Turkey
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Thailand
Estimate pending verification — ask your care coordinator for a current quote
Cost ranges are indicative estimates for international patients and vary with implant choice, number of levels treated, surgeon, and hospital. Request a personalised quote for your specific case.
Clinical detail: AAOS OrthoInfo, Mayo Clinic Health System, Cleveland Clinic. Cost ranges cross-checked across multiple independent medical-tourism sources per country where marked; ranges flagged "pending verification" could not be independently confirmed at the time of writing.
Faridabad, India
Asia's largest private hospital — 2,600 beds, 64 operation theatres, 81 specialties on a 130-acre campus in Delhi NCR. NABH & NABL accredited. Centres of excellence in oncology, cardiac surgery, BMT, organ transplantation, neurosciences, and IVF.
800+
Specialists
2,600+
Beds
New Delhi, India
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Sarita Vihar, New Delhi is one of India's foremost multi-specialty tertiary care centres, part of the Apollo Hospitals network established by Dr. Prathap C Reddy in 1983. The 710-bed facility records 1,600+ daily OPD visits, 1,000+ international patient consultations monthly, and receives 5,000+ international patients per year from over 120 countries. Its Centres of Excellence span cardiac sciences, oncology, neurosciences, organ transplantation, nephrology, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, and bariatric surgery. The hospital is equipped with Da Vinci XI robotic systems, CyberKnife radiosurgery, 3 Tesla MRI, LINAC, ECMO, and a 3D neuro-navigation system.
700+
Specialists
710+
Beds
Elective (planned) angioplasty for stable angina or documented coronary artery disease is very well-suited to medical tourism. You share your recent angiogram images or stress test results with the overseas hospital in advance; the interventional cardiologist reviews them, confirms the plan, and schedules the procedure for shortly after your arrival, keeping your total trip under a week.
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